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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: ENBOOM on February 01, 2012, 06:11 am

Title: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: ENBOOM on February 01, 2012, 06:11 am
Silk Road's Categories on the Left hand side is one of the best features for our buyers who simply want to browse and see what new and interesting things are available to the community.
However it's lacking in a few areas. 

Personally I believe the Ecstasy section should be changed to Empathogens or Entactogens as Ecstasy typically refers to MDMA (at least it does to all of the drug nerds)
That and Methylone and Ecstasy are two different things yet their under the same category.

Another area that is too general is the Opioids>Perscription

I believe the Prescription category should have subcatgeories for each active ingredient. (Hydrocodone, DHC, Hydromorphone, Oxycodone, Oxymorphone, Fentanyl, Morphine, etc.)

These categories are not the only ones.  As many of you know I vend Research Chemicals here, and many of the research chemicals I vend or plan to vend do not currently have a category.

I personally would be willing to do this if Silk Road and the community is okay with it, as I love categorizing multitudes of chemicals.

Title: Re: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: dubdubbawobwob on February 01, 2012, 06:16 am
I think this is a fantastic idea, especially considering the volume of various pharmaceuticals sold on SR.

It's always been a pain to search for that specific opiate, or benzo etc...
Title: Re: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: LexusMiles on February 01, 2012, 06:40 am
SR I think should consider this a good opportunity. Here we have a vendor with immaculate history and intricate knowledge of the chemistry categories; who is volunteering to get involved with maintenance of the main page. I guess you could say the categories here at SR are like the shelves of a drug-store.. if the sections are neat and tidy, the customers flow about the store much more fluidly. So +1.

Also, monsieur 'boom, your offer might be worth re-posting to the "now hiring" portal (on the SR main page)......
Title: Re: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: tordemon on February 02, 2012, 03:29 am
I'm thinking that a tag system may be better. We could have lots of different tags that might make searching easier.

We could have pill versus powder versus plant, etc.
We could have psychedelic, dissociative, 2C, etc. like we already have, but then add 2C-T-7 etc. for each specific drug.

I think the categories should stay somewhat the same, though, because if the categories start going too deep, things will become less and less simplified, and it may make things less satisfactory.
Title: Re: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: ENBOOM on February 02, 2012, 06:07 am
The purpose of doing it in the trees is so that substances could be BROWSED, and not searched.  There's always people who are curious and like to see what there is, it makes it more easy and accessible.

Also I dont necessarily think that it would affect the ease of use, The trees wouldn't become more complicated, they'd technically be more SIMPLE.

For Example I know you might be afraid of the damage that I would do in the Psychedelic tree with all the new Research Chemicals etc, but it would be rather easy and efficient.

Instead of making seperate 5-meo categories for each one right away.  We could implicate something that's already been used on the site.

-Psychedelics
     - 5-meo-X
            - 5-meo-DALT
            - 5-meo-AMT
            - 5-meo-DMT    .... etc.

The only reason why I'm extremely adamant about this is because whenever I like to look around and see what's available on SR I use the trees.  Many categories are very broad so my BROWSING stops there, as waiding throough a bunch of text can be a pain in the ass at times.

Newegg incorporates these more specific category trees on its site and it's a great way to help figure out what specifically you want.

but you're right we could definitely use a tag system like you are talking about and the tags would show up in Searches.

Combine both ideas create a great idea ;)



Title: Re: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: Horizons on February 02, 2012, 12:01 pm
I agree with Enboom. Especially since it's possible to view all items in one category even though it may have subcategories. So you can just decide to browse, say, the 2c-X listings, without bothering to go individually to the 2c-b, 2c-e, 2c-i, etc categories. You can go as deep as you want, so it's a very clean solution.
Title: Re: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: tordemon on February 03, 2012, 02:31 am
I suppose I didn't convey myself very clearly; that's what I was meaning. It often times really is too difficult to wade through all that text, and the browsing method would be more effective, I'm just saying we shouldn't let it get too deep. Ie, I'd say like 3 or 4 levels deep might help, but if we start getting categories 6 or 7 levels deep, I think it's prohibitively categorized.
Title: Re: Silk Road Category Tree Organizer
Post by: Horizons on February 03, 2012, 02:39 am
I suppose I didn't convey myself very clearly; that's what I was meaning. It often times really is too difficult to wade through all that text, and the browsing method would be more effective, I'm just saying we shouldn't let it get too deep. Ie, I'd say like 3 or 4 levels deep might help, but if we start getting categories 6 or 7 levels deep, I think it's prohibitively categorized.

Oh, I see. Yes, I believe that's very reasonable.